ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to Shakespeare, “All The World is a
A
globe
B
performance
C
earth
D
stage
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"All the world’s a stage” is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139.

Detailed explanation-2: -People have roles to play in life just as actors do in the theatre.

Detailed explanation-3: -He says, “All the world’s a stage, / And all the men and women merely players.” The meaning of this phrase is that this world is like a stage show, and all human beings are merely actors.

Detailed explanation-4: -The main theme of this poem is that man is the ultimate loser in the game of life. According to Shakespeare, the world is a stage and everyone is a player. He says that every man has seven stages during his lifetime. He performs different seven roles in his lifetime and finally exits from this worldly stage.

Detailed explanation-5: -Baby or infant. School boy or child. Lover. Soldier. Justice or judge. Old man. Extreme old age, again like a child.

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